Childbase, the tenth largest nursery group in the country (according to our Nursery Chains2024 supplement), introduced its Partnership Reward Days in January, which sees employees earn up to five days of extra paid leave in each quarter depending on the number of hours they have worked.
A total of 79,255 hours have been allocated to date, which equates to 10,567 days awarded to 1,789 different colleagues. The company employs over 2,322 staff, 147 of whom are apprentices and 387 seasonal and relief staff, who work across 44 settings.
According to Childbase’s head of recruitment and compliance, Jaime King, feedback from colleagues about how they are using their reward days has been ‘enormously positive’. She says that the initiative has also boosted the number of job applications it has received.
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